During the prosperous, forward-thinking era after the Second World War, a growing number of men, women, and children across the United States were wearing fashions that evoked the Old West. Westernwear: Postwar American Fashion and Culture examines why a sartorial style with origins in 19th-century agrarian traditions continued to be worn at a time when American culture sought balance between technocratic confidence in science and technology on one side, and fear and anxiety over global annihilation on the other. By analysing well-known and rarely considered western manufacturers, Westernwear…mehr
During the prosperous, forward-thinking era after the Second World War, a growing number of men, women, and children across the United States were wearing fashions that evoked the Old West. Westernwear: Postwar American Fashion and Culture examines why a sartorial style with origins in 19th-century agrarian traditions continued to be worn at a time when American culture sought balance between technocratic confidence in science and technology on one side, and fear and anxiety over global annihilation on the other. By analysing well-known and rarely considered western manufacturers, Westernwear revises the common perception that fashionable innovation came from the East coast and places western youth cultures squarely back in the picture. The book connects the history of American working class dress with broader fashionable trends and discusses how and why Native American designs and representations of Native American people were incorporated broadly and inconsistently into the western visual vocabulary. Setting westernwear firmly in context, Sonya Abrego addresses the incorporation of this iconic style into postwar wardrobes and popular culture, and charts the evolution of westernwear into a modern fashion phenomenon.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Sonya Abrego is an instructor at Parsons School of Design, The New School, and The Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, USA. She is a design historian specializing in the history of American fashion in the twentieth century. She holds a PhD in decorative arts, design history, and material culture studies from Bard Graduate Center, USA, and takes an interdisciplinary approach to examining the connections between dress, popular culture, and modern art and design.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Westernwear: Histories and Contexts Chapter 2: Four Westernwear Companies Chapter 3: Dressing the Atomic West: Locating the Western in Midcentury America Chapter 4: Westernwear as ready-to-wear Chapter 5: Westernwear in youth culture and subculture Chapter 6: The Native American Presence in Westernwear: Design and Representation Conclusion Bibliography Index
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Westernwear: Histories and Contexts Chapter 2: Four Westernwear Companies Chapter 3: Dressing the Atomic West: Locating the Western in Midcentury America Chapter 4: Westernwear as ready-to-wear Chapter 5: Westernwear in youth culture and subculture Chapter 6: The Native American Presence in Westernwear: Design and Representation Conclusion Bibliography Index
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